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January 20, 2023
Laugh ‘Til It Doesn’t Hurt — Fridays For Future, Climate Strike Online
Laughter is the ultimate unifier. Can it work for climate action?
January 19, 2023
Thursday Doors: Corning, New York 5
This first picture is just of a couple of doors and many arched windows. If anybody knows how to remove that noise I get on pictures of brickwork and siding, I’d appreciate knowing how. Here’s another green door for green door fans (at least, I…
January 18, 2023
One-Liner Wednesday: Concession
Sara has been trying to get me to watch Netflix’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events. I loved the books, HATED the Jim Carrey movie, and hated the first one and a half episodes of the series. Count Olaf’s attitude toward the child, Violet, was soooo…
January 17, 2023
Food: I Love Radishes Now!
Over the years, I’ve come to love many vegetables I didn’t like as a child (which was almost all of them), but radishes have remained on my Do Not Want list, right up there with organ meats and squidgy things. But Sara’s new beau, who…
January 16, 2023
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Blue Bar and Sweaters
I had the privilege of reading the ARC (advance reader copy) of The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas. “Couldn’t be as good as You Beneath Your Skin,” (her previous novel) I thought. I was wrong. It’s aMAZing. I’m a cozy mystery kinda gal, and these…
January 15, 2023
Sunday Snapshot: Flowers In The Lattice
A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: View through a lattice. MA
January 14, 2023
Caturday: Chickie Looks Pretty
HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! I askidentally poked Mommy with a claw this week. She was putting water in my fountain and I was on the CatBird Seat, and I reached down and bapped her head. So she stood up and petted me. NOBODY pets…
January 13, 2023
January 12, 2023
Thursday Doors: Corning, New York Part 4
On Market Street in Corning, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a door. Then you have to run. #JustSayin. Here are a few that we found when we went doorscursioning. A crazy green door: A study in yellows: More for the clock, tbh: And,…
January 11, 2023
One-Liner Wednesday: Two One-Liners
I came across a slip of paper on which I had written two one-liners spoken by a cis man of our acquaintance who we got tipsy enough to let us do his nails. He wanted skulls. I’m MomGoth and Sara is an archaeologist, so we…
